bug#8744: 23.3.50; rcirc prints gibberish

[Deniz Dogan]

On 2011-05-27 19:21, Leo wrote:
>   1. Emacs -q
>   2. M-x irc
>   3. find out your nick by typing /me
>   4. C-c C-q and input your nick there
>   5. In the popup buffer type any utf-8 chars such as ♩♫
>
> You may see something similar to the attached screenshot.
>
> GNU Emacs 23.3.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.7.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0
>   AppKit 1038.35) of 2011-05-27

For what it's worth, I cannot reproduce this on: GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 
(i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2011-05-16 on 3249CTO